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A/N: This was written for the Christmas Collection Competition. All stories will have the Fremione pairing. This story used prompts 1. Celebration and 32. Blizzard/Snow. Not all drabbles/one shots will take place at Christmas or even in December.
Birthday Setbacks
Hermione put the finishing touches on dinner. It was her mother's birthday. Hermione had invited her over for a celebration and she had made her mother's favorite meal. She was putting he dishes on the dining room table, when she looked up and saw Fred walk in.
"What's wrong?" Hermione asked. She knew Fred only looked serious when something was wrong.
"Have you looked outside lately?" he asked.
Hermione shook her head in the negative. To provide maximum light for cooking, she had charmed the windows to look like a sunny day. She removed the charm with a wave of her wand and looked outside.
"Oh no! A blizzard?"
Fred nodded in the affirmative, solemnly.
"Now how are my parents supposed to get here?" She sat heavily on the dining chair she had been standing next to.
Fred sat next to her and rubbed her back, comfortingly.
"We'll think of something," he said. "The brightest witch of the age and a co-founder of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes have to be able to come up with some solution."
Hermione smiled a bit. "Yes, we should be able to come up with something."
"Apparition?" suggested Fred.
"Mum gets sick," said Hermione.
"Flying car?"
"Too windy."
"Take the food there?"
"It doesn't travel well."
"Floo powder?"
That gave Hermione pause. "That could work. As long as one of us travels with one of them."
She grinned and walked to the fireplace in the living room. "Let's go."